NMLP P-045563 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-19

The Alchemist

Paulo Coelho · Editora Rocco, Rio de Janeiro (Portuguese true first); first English HarperSanFrancisco, 1993 · 1988

Original language Brazilian Portuguese (Rocco, 1988). For English, the US HarperSanFrancisco edition (1993) is the first in English anywhere and precedes the UK edition (Thorsons/HarperCollins, 1995), so US precedes UK. Both the Portuguese first and the 1993 English first are collected.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-045563 for "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-045563, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).